Product Manager, Core Application
Location: US, CA, Mountain View
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Master's Degree
Industry: Internet
Function: Product Management

Company profile:
Come be a part of one of the fastest growing, well-funded and exciting startups in Silicon Valley.  Peel makes the world’s leading smart remote app which turns your mobile device into a universal remote control. Our technology is preloaded on many of the world’s top-selling Android devices.  Peel’s audience is at 60 million and doubling every six months with 3 billion+ remote commands handled every month.   Help us revolutionize the TV viewing experience and achieve our goal of becoming the universal controller for the internet of things.Peel is driven by design and a passion for developing brilliant user experiences. We simplify complex problems, then surprise and delight. Prior to starting at Peel, members of the team helped create some of the best products available today, including iTunes, iPhoto, Netflix, Roku, Avid, and Final Cut Pro. We're a fun company that works hard, but understands the value of well balanced professional and personal lives. Away from work, we raise wonderful young families, race cars, sail boats, play instruments, and go on adventures in outer space… Well, maybe we all just dream about that last one… On the job, we come in charged and focussed on changing the industry, forever. We want to work with like-minded creative and talented people. If you want to change the world and the face of entertainment, we want to hear from you!

Job description:
The Product Manager of the Core Peel Application must be a multi-faceted candidate with excellent educational qualifications and proven professional track record.The product manager for the core application will be responsible for owning the product roadmap and executing the product delivery via bi-monthly scrums. Will be responsible for building new features with a clear explantation and rigor applied to prioritization based on market situations and customer requirements. Will be responsible for defining, scoping and delivering the product iterations to the market on time and to quality requirements. The candidate will also be responsible for building for user retention and constatnly improving current numbers.

Requirements:
Top Computer Science / Engineering SchoolTop MBA preferred.Since this role will be actively working with engineering and participating in scrum meetings and engineering processes, the candidate must be comfortable in this process. Prior experience in this is valuable.Great approach to “Build Phase” followed by excellent attention to detail to “Measurement and Continuous Improvement”.Must know how to build for retention and stickiness. Ability and past experience in using data as a way to inform new features and manage iterative product improvement.Experience setting up A/B testing experiments and the ability to read the data and come to a conclusion to make product decisions. Proven record of improving retention and core product metrics. Experience designing for large scale. Peel expects to hit 150M users in 2014.Clear approach to building anything. Must be able to articulate the approach. Clear approach to continuous improvement of product retention. Must be able to articulate the approach.Own the product roadmap - be able to analyze market and industry trends to recommend product focus areas to management and develop design concepts to communicate idea. Be able to develop product roadmap and set clear milestones.Execute roadmap in clear chunks of work that go out to market on a regular schedule.Experience working with designers and UI developers to transform an idea into real user interfaceBe able to run daily scrums to deliver product.Deliver to time and to quality requirements.Presentation skills to present ideas, new interfaces etc to founders.Take founders feedback and rev designs and concepts.Must be from a background of television, online video, mobile video, social and content related apps.

Benefits:
Come be a part of one of the fastest growing, well-funded and exciting startups in Silicon Valley.  Peel makes the world’s leading smart remote app which turns your mobile device into a universal remote control. Our technology is preloaded on many of the world’s top-selling Android devices.  Peel’s audience is at 60 million and doubling every six months with 3 billion+ remote commands handled every month.   Help us revolutionize the TV viewing experience and achieve our goal of becoming the universal controller for the internet of things.What else do we offer? Here are some of the benefits at Peel:* Competitive base salary* Stock Options* Full benefits (medical, dental, vision)* Easy walking distance from Caltrain* Free Caltrain passes* Free parking* Free gourmet lunch Wednesdays* Close proximity to downtown Mountain View eateries* On-site massage* Life insurance* 401K* On-site snacks/beverages/gourmet coffee* Open dog policy* Ping Pong, Pool and other games onsite.